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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [test]: grep-3.0-2


On 02/17/2017 05:42 PM, Steven Penny wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 11:43:13, cyg Simple wrote:
>> There are as many ways to remove the \r as there are ways to create
>> them.
> 
> Not really, if you are interested in POSIX compliance. POSIX Sed does not
> support \r or \xD or \15. Same for POSIX Vim. The only portable tools I
> know are
> awk and tr.

And tr can only remove ALL \r; if all you want to do is convert \r\n
line endings to \n while preserving mid-line embedded \r, you're stuck
with awk or d2u.

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